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Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, thinks she knows why young women and unmarried women tend to vote Democrat: they’re lacking “the security of a male.” During an appearance on Real America’s Voice, Evita, 26, shared her theory on why these women “vote very, very poorly,” and argued that “male apathy” during midterm elections is a huge problem for this reason.
She’s right that unmarried women are more likely to be Democrats.
Alt-right political activist Jack Posobiec pointed out that while women are more likely to vote Democrat than men are, marital status is also a significant factor. According to a 2024 report from the Pew Research Center, 51% of women either lean toward the Democratic Party or identify with it, while 44% of women lean or consistently vote Republican. The difference is much more dramatic when you look at unmarried women. 72% of women who have never been married lean or consistently vote Democrat, and only 24% lean toward or support the GOP.
Evita thinks this “actually makes perfect sense, just intuitively.” She said, “If you’re an unmarried woman, what are you looking for in your life most of all? What is missing? It’s the security of a male.”
She tried to argue that unmarried women try to get that security from the Democratic Party instead.
Evita continued, “And so young women and unmarried women, especially, are saying, looking at the Democratic Party, which is entirely based off of offering free things and social programs, and they say, ‘That’s my party. That’s what I want to go towards.'”
She added, “And so they vote very, very poorly.” Perhaps this point of view is not all that surprising coming from someone whose Instagram bio reads, “My values are vintage.” When making this point, she seemed to be arguing that voter turnout for men is important for Republicans because of all these young, unmarried women who supposedly “vote very, very poorly” and also are more likely to vote than men are.
“Women have consistently outperformed men electorally,” she said. “…It’s a big problem if we have male apathy in these midterms.”
The argument is reminiscent of something Erika Kirk said recently.
This idea that women look to the government for things that men allegedly could and should provide them with is one that Erika shared when talking about how Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race.
Erika, reflecting on how lots of women voted for Mamdani, claimed that there’s a “tendency, especially when you live in a city like Manhattan, where you are so career-driven, and you almost look to the government as a form of replacement for certain things, relationship-wise, even, so you see things a little bit differently.”
She argued that women should rely on a man for support instead of relying on the government. According to her, women shouldn’t “look to the government as a solution to put off having a family or a marriage because you’re relying on the government to support you instead of being united with a husband where you can support yourself and your husband can support and you guys can all combine together.”
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